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I should have left the phone at home and gone on my vacation theold fashioned way: off the grid!

They say not to mix business with pleasure — or is it leisure? 10 19 36 50 53 58Well, Verizon is my cell carrier and I had to relearn that lesson 6 7 15 30recently. I headed over to Canada wine country like six weeks ago 9 28 40 48 55for some RnR. While there, I got a text from work saying there was 38a problem. Not wanting to run up expensive voice minutes while out 35 44 48 57 58 61of the country, I texted back that I was a temporary expat and very 21 55 64likely it could wait…? Exiled or not, it couldn’t wait. Text after 2 8 16 27 61text arrived, pleading for me to call in. I caved and they got me 3 10 20 39 41 45 64on the phone with sixteen other people for about forty-five minutes. 21 37 58 62Then, this past week, I got the bill: the voice was OK after all, 9 23 40 50because my plan provides no family roaming in Canada, not just 12 17 34 43 47 52domestic. But those ding-dang text messages were $3.20 each! 8 16 22 28 41 60

Note: no actual cellular budgets were harmed in the making of this message.